13 Oct
2010
13 Oct
'10
10:16 a.m.
In article <1D7E779D9BAD4DF081730566A31C3E75 at dell8300>,
"Teo Zenios" <teoz at neo.rr.com> writes:
The usual where would you put it,
I'd store it in my warehouse with the rest of the gear for my computer
graphics history museum.
how much money would you have to shell out
to buy it and ship it,
Shipping is probably $200-300 for proper packing and freight shipping.
Current bidding is $560, I'm expecting it to sell for $750 at a
minimum, maybe $1000+ once the snipers have their say. While it would
be nice to have one of these, at this point I can think of much more
effective things I could do to improve my museum with the same amount
of money. However, as time goes on, it becomes harder to find items
for the museum that fill a gap and the more exotic items start working
their way up the priority list.
and once here what exactly would you do with it?
Restore it to working condition and occasionally exhibit it
functioning. Usually exhibit video of it functioning. For an item
like this, I would be treating its restoration like the way the PDP-1
team worked at CHM.
There are many old machines that are worth preserving
but are better off in
a museum then in somebody's cluttered basement left to rot.
I highly doubt that anyone on this list leaves stuff "to rot" in their
basement.
How rare are they anyway?
I would hazard a guess that less than 25 units are still in existence.
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